- Enterprise h2oGPTe retrieves the relevant statutes, regulations, case law and your own precedents for a jurisdiction, and cites the source behind each point.
- For legal aid, the assistant turns a short text message into a plain-language, step-by-step answer with links to forms and services, and hands complex matters to a person.
- For briefs and matters, it compares precedents, and agents outline strategy options, procedural steps and missing evidence for the lawyer to decide.
- It gives legal information, not legal advice, and a lawyer or paralegal checks the sources before anyone relies on the answer.
The research takes longer than the answer
Your lawyers, paralegals and legal aid staff spend hours finding the right statute, the controlling case and the form a client needs. The answer is often one paragraph; finding and checking it is the work.
Legal aid teams get the same questions at volume: tenancy, unpaid wages, consumer disputes and protection orders. Most people who ask need a clear first step and the right service, fast. Your files also carry privilege and client confidences, so an assistant has to run where the files already are.
How legal research and aid assistants work
Enterprise h2oGPTe answers from a collection of your legal sources using retrieval-augmented generation.
Step 1: build the collection
Add statutes, regulations, public case law, practice guides and your own precedents and templates for each jurisdiction you serve. Collections are private by default and shared with the users or groups you choose.
Step 2: read every document
Scanned judgments, forms and exhibits are read with Document AI in Enterprise h2oGPTe, which can also pull set fields, such as parties and dates, into structured output.
Step 3: ask in plain language
Hybrid semantic search and full-text search find the passages that answer the question, including exact case citations and section numbers.
Step 4: answer with the source
The model writes the answer from those passages and cites them, and your prompt can tell the assistant to say when it finds no relevant authority instead of guessing.
Step 5: let agents do the matter work
For a case file, an AI agent compares options, precedents, procedural steps and gaps in the evidence. You can review the agent's plan before it runs, and the lawyer makes every decision.
Step 6: protect client data
PII redaction can be turned on for a collection to mask personal data at ingestion, in questions and in answers.
Information, not advice
The assistant gives legal information with citations, and it can be set to say so in every answer and to hand complex matters to a lawyer. Your lawyers decide what advice is given, and privileged files stay inside your environment across on-premises, air-gapped, private cloud or cloud deployment.